By Charles K Mark<\/p>\n
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Archbishop of Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS), His Grace Primate Justin Badi Aram, calls on South Sudan\u2019s political leaders to use Easter period to reflect on peace.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The head of ECSS church preached about resurrection of Christ as the foundation of Christian faith and the basis of hope for life beyond the grave.<\/p>\n He cited Christ\u2019s first encounter with his disciples, through which he sent a message of peace, and made his first assignment of sending the disciples on a mission for peace.<\/p>\n \u201cHe said, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.’ (John 20:21)\u201d Archbishop Badi quoted a scripture line in the Bible.<\/p>\n With reference to the above word of the risen Lord, the Anglican primate said he is obliged to send the followers of Christ Jesus, including the country\u2019s leaders, as ambassadors of peace in South Sudan.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are tired of the continued violence, road ambushes, and political and inter-communal killings happening in different parts of the country,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n Archbishop Badi encouraged all citizens and faithful to celebrate Easter with love for one another, embrace the spirit of nonviolence, and promote peace.<\/p>\n The Anglican leader challenged the political leaders to politicize dialogue and build consensus on how to take the country peacefully forward.<\/p>\n He, however, conveyed sympathy to the citizens over the relentless hardships as a result of the current social and harsh economic situation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe pray and urge the government to pay the salaries of the civil servants and organize forces to minimize the suffering of their families,\u201d the ECSS Primate urged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Charles K Mark Archbishop of Episcopal Church of South Sudan (ECSS), His Grace Primate Justin Badi Aram, calls on South Sudan\u2019s political leaders to use Easter period to reflect on peace. The head of ECSS church preached about resurrection of Christ as the foundation of Christian faith and[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/His-Grace-Justin-Badi-Arama-Primate-Archbishop-of-the-Episcopal-Church-of-South-Sudan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23214,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23212\/revisions\/23214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}